Scotland 2022

I held off making an entry because I needed to process. I’m actually making this entry a couple of days later. The battle, it seems, was less a battle for Scottish independence and more a thing of taking sides between Two English royal cousins vying for the crown.
The consequences though were very, very dire for the Highlanders who chose sides - regardless of which side they chose. In what I can only describe as a genuine ethnic cleansing, the government from this point forward forcibly crushed Highland culture and life. Their language; forbidden. Clothing (tartan, plaids, kilts - all of it): forbidden. Music, customs, all forms of traditional culture forbidden to the point of death. Highlander life was forever changed and the landscape depopulated.
The greedy ambition of a couple of entitled “royals” pretty much killed off a culture and altered the history and landscape for an entire people. So much blood and pain.
Are we so different today? It would appear not.Read more